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-# Low-impact sewage treatment+This topic is part of [[gt:water|Water & sewage]]. 
 +====== Low-impact sewage treatment ======
  
  
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-## What is low-impact sewage treatment?+===== What is low-impact sewage treatment? =====
  
 It’s any kind of treatment of sewage that attempts to minimise pollution and the use of water, energy and synthetic chemicals, and to turn our waste into something useful (fertiliser / soil improver). It’s any kind of treatment of sewage that attempts to minimise pollution and the use of water, energy and synthetic chemicals, and to turn our waste into something useful (fertiliser / soil improver).
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-## What are the benefits of low-impact sewage treatment?+===== What are the benefits of low-impact sewage treatment? =====
  
 We’ve learned to our cost that we can’t ignore water quality and still expect to have a healthy countryside and healthy lives. Thus, in the context of low-impact living, we need to diversify how we address the important issue of sanitation and to replace or back up the systems that rely on a ready supply of cheap fossil fuels for our electricity generation. proper sewage treatment is vital to the health of our wider environment. We’ve learned to our cost that we can’t ignore water quality and still expect to have a healthy countryside and healthy lives. Thus, in the context of low-impact living, we need to diversify how we address the important issue of sanitation and to replace or back up the systems that rely on a ready supply of cheap fossil fuels for our electricity generation. proper sewage treatment is vital to the health of our wider environment.
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-## What can I do?+===== What can I do? =====
  
 There are quite a number of low-impact sewage treatment or sanitation options available, although they pertain mostly to people with a bit of space for an on-site system. In urban areas, you'll be restricted to mains sewers or possibly a compost toilet if you have enough space in your garden for utilising the rich soil that is the natural result. However, simply [peeing on your compost heap](http://lowimpactorg.onyx-sites.io/taking-the-pee/) (at night perhaps, for modesty) is an excellent way to recycle N, P and K back into your soil and keep it out of the local municipal treatment system. For readers not connected to a mains sewer there are more options, with a variety of price tags and carbon footprint budgets, as listed in the image below. There are quite a number of low-impact sewage treatment or sanitation options available, although they pertain mostly to people with a bit of space for an on-site system. In urban areas, you'll be restricted to mains sewers or possibly a compost toilet if you have enough space in your garden for utilising the rich soil that is the natural result. However, simply [peeing on your compost heap](http://lowimpactorg.onyx-sites.io/taking-the-pee/) (at night perhaps, for modesty) is an excellent way to recycle N, P and K back into your soil and keep it out of the local municipal treatment system. For readers not connected to a mains sewer there are more options, with a variety of price tags and carbon footprint budgets, as listed in the image below.
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-## Further resources+===== Forum ===== 
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 +This topic belongs to the section [[gt:water|Water & sewage]]. You can ask questions or add information on the corresponding [Forum section](https://forum.growingthecommons.org/t/water). 
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 +===== Further resources =====
  
 - [Sewage pollution prevention guidelines](https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/485181/pmho0706bjgl-e-e.pdf) - [Sewage pollution prevention guidelines](https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/485181/pmho0706bjgl-e-e.pdf)
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-## Related topics+===== Related topics =====
  
-- [Biogas](https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/biog/biogas) +- [Biogas](biog:biogas) 
-- [Compost toilets](https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/cptt/compost_toilets) +- [Compost toilets](cptt:compost_toilets) 
-- [Plumbing](https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/plum/plumbing) +- [Plumbing](plum:plumbing) 
-- [Reed beds](https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/reed/reed_beds) +- [Reed beds](reed:reed_beds) 
-- [Septic tanks & drainage fields](https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/sept/septic_tanks) +- [Septic tanks & drainage fields](sept:septic_tanks) 
-- [Low-impact water supply](https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/watr/water) +- [Low-impact water supply](watr:water) 
-- [Waterless urinals](https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/wlur/waterless_urinals) +- [Waterless urinals](wlur:waterless_urinals) 
-- [Willow sewage treatment](https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/wsew/willow_sewage_treatment)+- [Willow sewage treatment](wsew:willow_sewage_treatment)
  
-## Specialist curators of this topic+===== Specialist curators of this topic =====
  
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